There’s nothing quite as wonderful as the effortless kind of beauty, the one that bursts from the inside because it can no longer be contained, only to become part of a whole that appears to be touched by magic. Beautiful like a daydream, tempting one to take a walk on the wild side, Maya Stepper photographed in black in white by AX AX AX is as raw as emotions are, with her soul hidden in plain sight and the voice of her eyes just as otherworldly as one would expect.

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Separated by a glass wall, two realities are about to collide. One that’s missing a piece of the puzzle, the other embodied by an untamed spirit, too overgrown in fact to be confined in such small premises. With her hair gently blowing in the wind, her eyes framed by a dark layer of eyeshadow and her white t-shirt nonchalantly hanging off one shoulder, she is madness and she is paradise.

View the complete photo shoot modeled by Maya Stepper and photographed by AX AX AX (axaxaxmercury.com) at the gallery.